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.-r lt;--, rreliiiKlfeiifi *- v..- -' I. XV MUXDKLEIX COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 23, 1944 No. 2 en Students appear in First Musical Program nssian Melody Will Be Played at Concert On Oct. 25 Russian melody, alive with the ic of sleigh bells and the excitement l winter ride, Schytte's Over the pes, played by Gloria Maloney, will l the first Wednesday Musical of year, at 3 p.m., on Oct. 25, in Room turning to the romantic music of it-Saens, Patricia Tennyson will My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice, i Samson and Delilah, with Lois n playing the piano accompaniment. Debussy Is on Program eanne Bouvais will play Scott's light- irted piano number, At the Donny lok Fair, and Carmelita Larocco will lose Debussy's Poissons d'or for her number. oprano Marilyn Vosberg, with Joan irshall accompanying, will sing Deb li, non tartar, from Le Nozzc di ro, by Mozart, after which Miss shall will play Chopin's Impromptu F Sharp Major. tinuing the Chopin motif, Miss will interpret the composer's rzo in B Flat Minor, a Polish isy with French beauty of detail. Will Play Prokofieff Other piano selections will include ibussy's Soiree Sans Granada, and ikofieff's March, Opus 33, both played (ean Macfcrran. Lillian Muza will ntribute a violin selection, Humming rd, by Drdla. Eunice Dankowski will sing the pop- ar.Ouvre Ton Coeur, from the opera rmen, by Bizet, with Margaret Cash- accompanying, and Rita Marie gustine will close the Musicale play- Rhapsodic in B Minor by Brahms. tress Americanism At Council Meeting -.. I chalk talk, a War Stamp skit, and public opinion poll will high-light the adent Activities Council meeting I n :. 26. Marjorie Ann Schaller and Mary ine Harvey will present the rudiments parliamentary law in a baker's dozen letches. Betty Howard will read the Ik-talk script, which was written by th Casey. Since collegians are citizens of to- orrow and moulders of public opinion, poll will be taken at this meeting con- rning the foremost national topics of day. The War Bond and Stamp committee, leaded by Naundas Fisher and Virginia loots, will present a skit in the spirit oi the annual S.A.C. follies. Graduate Returns As Staff Member Mary Virginia Murphy Pfister '42 has joined the staff as an assistant in the chemistry department. A chemistry ma jor at Mundelein, Mrs. Pfister taught last year at Alvernia high school. Courtesy Causes Comment and becomes a feather in your cap, according to Rosemary Roeder, Mary O'Malley, and Francine Lamb who supervise Helen Walz's final touches on Sodality poster. Courtesy Week begins today. Freshmen Advocate Good Neighbor Pact Under the sponsorship of the student Activities Council, the freshmen will entertain students from Loyola univer sity at the first Mundelein-Loyola coke dance of the year, on Friday, Oct. 27, from 3 to S p.m., in the Mundelein gym nasium. Jerry Stutz, S.A.C. president, is chair man of the party, with the freshman governors acting as committee chair men in charge of arrangements. Martha Wade and Ellcnmae Quan are in charge of the decoration com mittee, which will provide a Hallowe'en atmosphere in the gymnasium. Jeanne Smith is chairman of the mu sic committee, and Jo Ann McCarty will head the ticket committee. Ticket priori ty will go to students who were unable to procure tickets for the last coke dance. Mary Jane Wade will be chairman of the table committee, and Rcnce Men delsohn will work with students in the home economics department as chair man of refreshment committee. Patricia Gallagher is in charge of the arrangement committee, and Margaret Mary Doyle and Patricia Hayden are co-chairmen of the clean-up committee. Assisting the members of the Student Activities Council on the reception com mittee will be Mary Claire Lane, Jane Avis Butler, Elizabeth Kelleher, Jean McGrcal, and Frances Welling. Seniors Look at 3 Rs, Appreciate Teachers' Problems School bells are ringing twice these days for eight seniors who arc doing their student teaching this semester, un der the direction of their major ad visers and the department of education. At St. Gertrude's school, Mary Lavin and Mary Grace Carney, English ma jors, are conducting classes in literature. Kathryn Fox teaches botany and Rose Wirth teaches geometry at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, and Dorothy Grill and Betty Ann Yunker teach music at St. Ignatius. Margaret Drummond teaches biology at St. Michael's high school, and Pa tricia Gerlits teaches history at Munde lein Cathedral high school, where Mary Catherine Tuomey teaches literature and speech. English majors now observing at Senn high school are Marjorie Cava- naugh, Rita Guinanc, Joanne Santucci, and Veronica Wallcnsach. Patricia Gerlits of the history depart ment, Elizabeth Nowak of the art de partment, and Dorothea Kostantouros of the Spanish department are also observ ing at Senn. Included among the economics majors observing at Senn are Jane Dougherty, Mary Kay Fitzpatrick, Marie Galliano, and Loretta Gburczyk. Alumna, Former Technician Serve Army on Continent Lieut. Margaret Troy '39, of the Army Xursc Corps, first Mundelein graduate to volunteer for overseas service, had an audience with His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, when she entered Rome with the Fifth Army this summer. A recent issue of Novena Notes car ries a picture of Lieut. Troy shaking hands with Archbishop Spellman, during his recent visit to Italy. Lieut. Troy was a Public Health Nurse. Since she entered the Army in January, 1942, she has seen action in Africa, Sicily and Italy, having spent some months on the Anzio Beachhead. Stage Four One*Act Plays In College Theatre Nov* 5; Orchestra Provides Music Lieut. George F. Petterson of the Army Air Forces, former technician in the drama department, has been award ed the Air Medal for successful air raids over Continental Europe. Lieut. Petter son enlisted in the Air Corps in March of '43 and has been overseas since June. The citation accompanying the medal reads in part: The courage, coolness and skill displayed by Lieut. Petterson in the face of determined opposition materially aided in the successful com pletion of these missions. His actions reflect great credit upon himself and the armed forces of the United States. Out of this world of term papers and tests and into the graceful stately days of eighteenth-century France the drama department will take its audience when the curtain rises on the fall production, directed by Catherine Denny Phelps, at 8 p.m., on Nov. 5, in the college theatre. First of the four one-act plays for which senior Ruth Shmigelsky has de signed settings and arranged technical effects is Edmond Rostand's comedy, The Romancers, with Alice Marie Horen and Betty Howard starring as Sylvette and Percinet. Chloris Freeman and Mary Bccchcr, as Pasquinot and Bergamin, respectively, fathers of the young couple, confuse the hero, the heroine, and themselves, and Patricia Hayden and Bernice Bie- lawa, as musicians, lend suspense and beauty to the scene. Edith Moscardini plays Straforel, and Four Valuable Books Donated to Library Berthold Missal Includes Color Plates Recently added to the library's rare book collection are three volumes in the Welsh language, published in the mid- nineteenth century, which give insight into the lives and social customs of people in Wales, and a Berthold Mis sal, copied, with reproductions of the original illustrations in color, from a famous thirteenth-century- Missal, pre pared in the scriptorium of Weingarten Abbey, at the injunction of the Abbot Berthold. They arc the gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stanley of Chicago, who also gave to the library Twentieth Century Authors, a biographical dictionary of modern literature, by Kuntz, Haycraft, and Howard. Exactly 24,568 books have been col lected by the College library since 1930, according to a recent statement from the librarian. This docs not include the many hundreds of rare books and the extensive German collection. Among the newest volumes in the library are books covering courses intro duced just this semester. The Mind of Primitive Man, by Franz Boas, offers valuable information to students of an thropology For those studying occupa tional therapy, books by William Henry Burnham, John Eiscle Davis, William (Continued on page 3, column 4) Writers, Artist Win Recognition Honors came recently to a senior, a junior, and a sophomore for crea tive achievement June Tatge and Irene Kenney, English majors and members of The Review staff, had short stories in recent issues of the English supple ment of Narod, foreign language newspaper. Marie Von Driska '41 is editor of the English supplement. Distinction for sophomore art stu dent Joanne Bartzen arises from her contribution of a cover design to the current issue of the Illinois Den tal Journal. Skyscraper Changes Date of Publication Rosemary Lloyd and Edna Mae Holm star as his assistants in the attempted abduction of Sylvette. Complementing the spirited delicacy of Rostand's comedy, the College Orches tra, under the direction of Joseph J. Grill, will provide music with an eight eenth-century accent. They will perform Mozart's Costi Fan Tuitti overture, and the theme from the Mozart Sonata in C Major. Ase's Death music, from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt suite, will supply the appropriate mood for the morality play by William Butler Yeats, which, second on the program, presents the following question: What would you do if you were given only an hour to argue your way into Paradise? The Wis; Man in The Hoir-Glass, played by Barbara Bren nan, has a brief 60 minutes before death in which to atone for the evil done his fellowmen throughout his life. Marianne Farrell plays the Angel, Jianne O'Connor plays Teigue, Noreen Braum plays the Wise Man's wife, Jean Hanson, the Wise Man's child, and Edna Mae Holm, Florence Kumpfer, and Rose mary Lloyd are students in the second of the four plays. Scene three on the evening of Nov. 5 will whisk you into a fantasy set to music, with Annamay Byrne starring in The Princess With the Shiny Nose, by Magdalene Kessie '35. Players who complicate matters in the internationally-involved plot are Peggy Routliff, regal as the Queen; Margaret O'Leary, imposing as the King; Dolores Toniatti as the romantic prince; Pa tricia Broderick as his bodyguard; Mary Scherer as a fagot bearer, and Rose mary Comfort and Patricia Hereley as Tog and Mog. Finale of the production will be a modern comedy based on the actual ex perience of a Chicago woman who ad vertised for a maid, including in her advertisement, as an extra inducement, the offer of a mink coat, available on loan to the maid on her day off. Starring in Mary Thurman Pyle's play Dm You Say Mink? will be Eleanor Layden, the ad-running matron; Irene Foster, her friend; Patricia Czarnecki, the Boss's wife; and the following pro spective mink-coated maids: Veronica Walsh, Joyce Archer, Marjorie Kroske, N'oreen Braum, Jean Hanson, Barbara Mendelsohn, Anita Schwaba, and Pa tricia Scully. At the close of the production, the orchestra will play John Philip Sousa's Semper Fidelis March. Blue Monday will lie blue no longer, for with this issue, The Skyscraper will come out on alternate Mondays instead of alternate Fridays. The one exception will be the next issue, in which will appear results of the Presi dential election straw vote. That edi tion will come out Nov. 3, the day fol lowing the straw vote. 105 Seniors Will Don Academic Robes Wearing tlicir caps and gowns for the first time, the seniors will attend the traditional Senior Sunday Mass in Stella Maris Chapel, on Oct. 29, the feast of Christ the King. The Reverend Douglas Pearl, S.J., of Loyola university, will read the Mass and give the sermon. With the seniors, Father Pearl will be the guest of the College at breakfast in the tea-room. Attend Pan-American Affairs Conference Sister Mary Augustina, B.V.M., chairman of the history department. Sister Mary Liguori, B.V.M., chairman of the sociology department, and Pat ricia Gerlits, Ida Ann Cardone, and Amalia Kukulski, representing the In ternational Relations club, attended a meeting of the Commision on Inter- American affairs, held at Loyola on Oct. 12. Topic for the Oct. 12 meeting was Making the Americas One. The com mission is organized as a unit of the National Catholic Educational associa tion.
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